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t THE CHRONICLE. Clinton, S. C.. Nov. 18, 1969—7-A BILL CURRIE Mouth of the South ACC Needs Pagentry One North Carolina newspaper, The Charlotte Observer, has attacked Atlantic Coast Conference football as being dismally dull and so boring that the fans are staying away in division formation. Another, The Greensboro Daily News, is preparing to run a five- part series on what’s wrong with ACC football. It will not be a complimentary piece of writing. Like people who are ignorant of art always say they know what they like, I can plead ignorance of football, but stoutly maintain that I like the kind that explodes and produces points from any- whjra on the field. But it is not seemly for one who has never played the game to make technical complaints about how someone else teaches it Therefore, I refrain from being critical of coaches and how they play. But on the appeal of the games, I’m as qualified as anybody to say that they are presented with an approach that closely parallels a lively funeral ceremony. South Carolina excepted, the Atlantic Coast Conference is able to muster about as much hoopla and pageantry for a game as one might expect at a bird watcher’s convention. The bands are too small, march too slowly, and are garbed like some lost legion re turning from purgatory. There are too few majorettes, too few flags, too little boom-boom! Go to South Carolina and you see it done well. Go to Florida and you see it done better. Go to Notre Dame and you see it done right! Having a magnificent band which plays stirring tunes and marches in splendid cadence is not going to hurt the academic structure of the Universities as some dull-witted professors fear a good foot ball team might No women and less than 10 per cent of the men understand football. You hear some idiotic announcer on tele vision or radio talking about post patterns and flag patterns, and button hooks and trap plays, and almost his whole audience has not the slightest idea what it means. But everyone, particularly women and children, love the bands and the flags. Everyone, es pecially men, love to see pretty girls marching in the vanguard of a band. Where is all this in the ACC? There may be good reasons--though I doubt it—that the ACC cannot get enough good football players. Of course, the aca demic requirements which force an athlete to have better admis sion credentials than any other student are silly and ridi culous as most things are conceived and administered by “faculty’’ committees. But the ACC can and does get some fair ball players. There just needs to be a greater emphasis on winning, and more bally-hoo to get the people who sit home and watch TV to again goto the games. But there are no restrictions on musicians and majorettes and flags and fireworks. What possible excuse can any school offer for the miserable half-time and pre-game festivities? Kid Devils Shooting For Unbeaten Season Clinton Junior High’s Kid De vils go after their first undefeat ed season since 1965 tonight, Thursday, at Woodruff. The kick off is scheduled for 6 p.m. The Kid Devils will take a 6-0-1 mark into the game. The only blemish on the record is a 14-14 tie with Union in the first game of the season. The Kid De vils later avenged that tie with a 20-18 win over Union. Clinton won a previous game with Woodruff 22-0butCoachBill Rhodes warns, “Union beat Wood ruff handily earlier in the sea son but had a real battle on their hands last week before winning 14-6. Woodruff has improved and we’ll have our hands full.’’ Clinton blanked J. L. Mann 14-0 last Thursday for their sixth win of the season. JVs Top Newberry Clinton High School’s junior varsity football team Thursday night avenged a previous loss by damping Newberry 26-14 at Wilder Field in Clinton. The Newberry JVS had defeated Clinton 22-6 earlier in the •eason. The Clinton JVs close their schedule tonight, Thursday, at Woodruff and a win would put the locals at 5-5 for the season. How- •ver, Woodruff won a previous meeting with Clinton. Two passes from quarterback Barry Saunders to End George Bodie scored for Clinton in the first half against Newberry. Saunders hit Bodie witlw^ 20- yarder in the first quarter and late in the second quarter they connected on a 55-yard scoring pass play. Jimmy Armstrong ran the two-point conversion after the second touchdown and the score was tied 14-14 at halftime. Coach Jerry Lewis said, “We played poorly in the first half but in the second half we looked like a different team. The defense was much better and the backs were hitting the trap holes bet ter.” Lawrence Jones put Clinton ahead in the third quarter as he burst off-tackle and raced 45 yards to a touchdown. David Mangum sewed it up for Clinton as he took a fourth quarter punt and, protected by a wall of blockers, romped 45 yards to paydirt. Red Devils Host Woodruff Friday GREAT SCOTT — Rell Street’s Richard Scott (22) bulls for yardage against Wright High last week in a playoff game at Bell Street. Wright won. 12-0, to advance to the upper-state 2-A champion ship. The difference between a break-even season and a losing season will be on the line for the Clinton Red Devils Friday night when they play host to Woodruff’s Wolverines in the season finale at Wilder Field. The game is to start at 8 p.m. Clinton will carry a 4-5-1 re cord into the fracas. Woodruff is 5-3-2. A Clinton victory would tie Clinton and Woodruff for at least third place in the 3-A Eastern Conference standings. Clinton has a 3-3 conference mark and Woodruff is 4-2. The game also carries another 'Relaxed' Hose Shock Apps; Journey To C-N “Our boys went up thei ■ and played a good, relaxed ball game, got a couple of good breaks, over came a couple of bad breaks and deserved their win,” Presby terian College Football Coach Cally Gault said in summing up the Blue Hose’s 27-25 upset of Appalachian Saturday night in Boone, N. C. “We went up there with the idea of playing our normal game. We continued toplay as we have in the last three games and it paid off for us." Thornwell Finishes 4-4 With Win Over Wave The teams were tied 0-0 at halftime but the Kid Devils struck in the third and fourth quarters for touchdowns. A third quarter drive featured several good runs by Derek Wessinger before Terry Heaton blasted over from the seven. The extra point was no good. In the fourth quarter, quarter back Claude Crocker passed 25 yards to end Mike Wooten who sprinted the remaining 15 yards on a 40-yard scoring play. Hea ton ran the two-point conver sion. Clinton threatened twice in the first half but one threat was snuffed out as Clinton lost the ball on downs and the Kid Devils ran out of time at the Mann 15 at half time. BY MIKE SIMONS The Thornwell Saints closed out their season with a 34-22 win over the Golden Wave of Dacus- ville, bringing their final record to four wins and five losses. In conference play the Saints are even at 4-4, The Saints’ Maynard Pierce scored four touchdowns and a pair qf tyo-point conversions to bring his season’s scoring total to 128 points. His first score in the game came in the first quar ter when he went eight yards for the TD. The try for the point after failed. A 20 yard run by Pierce made it 12-0 early in the second quart er. The Golden Wave then bounced back to take the lead on a pair of tallies by Gene Baxter on runs of 12 and 10 yards. He ran for the two-pointer after the first touchdown, and the run after the second was stopped short. Pierce put the Saints out front to stay when he went 80 yards on the ensuing kick-off. After the run for the point after failed, Thornwell led 18-14. Pierce’s last touchdown of the night came with 6:07 left in the third period on an eight-yard gallop. His run for the two- pointer made it 26-14. Randy Galbreath scored from the two and Baxter ran for two points to pull Dacusville to with in four points at 26-24. Kanada Roach put the game out of reach for the Saints when he scored from four yards out with 3:32 left in the game. Pierce added two more on a run for the conversion to account for the final margin of victory, 34 - 22. Commenting on the game, Thornwell coach Ben Crabtree said that he had felt before the game that Thornwell could score, and they proved this. The differ ence was that the Thornwell de fense was able to contain Dacus ville when they had to, according to Crabtree. Crabtree assessed the overall season by saying that the Saints’ main problem had been a lack of depth, and that they hoped to cor rect that problem next season. This week, the Blue Hose Jour ney to Jefferson City, Tenn., for a 2:30 p.m. Saturday game with tough Carson-Newman. Coach Gault said, “They’reex tremely tough and they still have All-American End Tommy Jones who beat us with a long pass re ception last year.” Against Appalachian, PC grabbed a 17-10 halftime lead and then fought off the Apps in the second half to bring their record to 3-5, counting the forfeit win over Catawba. Appalachian jumped into a 10-0 lead before PC quarterback Allen McNeill hit halfback Tam Milton with a 67-yard scoring bomb. “That was one of our breaks," Gault said. The ball b >uneed off the intended receiver and into the hands of Milton who raced in to score. Sandy Cruickshank la ter hit a 37-yard field goal to tie the score. Later in the second quarter, linebacker Bobby Norris picked off an Appalachian pass at his own 40 and galloped 60 yards to a touchdown. Cruickchank kicked the extra point for a 17-10 half time lead and PC was never head ed after that. However, the second half was not without some anxious mo ments for the Blue Hose. PC upped its margin to 24-10 as Milton went over from five yards out but Appalachian scored to cut it to 24-18. Cruickshank bombed a 24-yard field goal which provided the eventual winning points, making it 27-18 but again Appalachian came back and scored on a 26-yard run. With two minutes remaining in the game, Appalachian was at PC’s four-yard-line. Some tough PC defensive play caused Appala chian to fumble near the goal line. The ball rolled into the end zone and a PC player touched it before it went out of the end zone, giving the Blue Hose pos session at their own 20 and halt ing Appalachian’s final big threat. “I was particularly pleased with our over-all performance," Gault said, “I think McNeill call ed and played the finest game of his career. (He connected on 10 of 15 passes and had no inter ceptions.) Bobby Norris also had ■ a real fine game. They all play ed well. ’ PC Wins Forfeit Bell St. Loses 12-0 To Wright In Playoff Presbyterian College’s foot ball team picked up another Caro- linas Conference win last Wed nesday but Head Coach Cally Gault isn't particularly happy a- bout it. PC was one of three Carolinas Conference teams which was awarded a forfeit from Catawba College after it was discovered that Catawba had played an in eligible player in its first seven games. It was discovered that Ed Ny- paver of Uniontown, Pa., had at tended Vanderbilt University prior to enrolling as a freshman at Catawba in January. School officials said he did not indicate to them that he had ever en rolled at any other school. Nypaver was a defensive starter as a linebacker for Ca tawba which defeated PC 17-10 on Nov. 1. Coach Gault commented, "We regret that this happened. We don’t think it was a deliberate attempt to circumvent the rules. We think the boy just got some bad advice from some folks in his home town who thought they were helping him. This sort of thing can happen to anybody and we regret that it happened to Coach Harvey Stratton and Ca tawba. Wright HighSchoolofAbbeviUe upset Bell Street’s Wildcats 12-0 last Friday in the class 2-A play offs. The loss ended Bell Street’s season at 6-3-1. Bell Street Coach Willie Little A Wite Man Learns from M» own •xpwionco. But a trill wher man laarra from tha axparianca of othart. Amarkana are wise enough to own over $550 billion dollera worth of Ufa Inturanca and the amount It increating •vary day. Hava you learned from the American axparianca? REPRESENTATIVES SIDNEY HARTZOG—833-2333 FRANK LYDA—833-1784 REPRESENTATIVES FRED BRAGG—833-1663 JACOBS BLDG.—833-0950 OLIN FURR—833-0066 commented, “We just didn’t play well at all. We have had a good year but we were disap pointed in that loss. We felt we had a team good enough to do well in the playoffs but we just couldn’t get started. Wright played well enough to win and deserved their victory.” Wright scored in the second and third quarters, first on an 18- yard pass and then on a three- yard run. Bell Street’s deepest penetra tion was to the Wright 30. Seven seniors played their final game for the Wildcats. They are defensive back Luke Babb; guard Alonzo Carterjcenter Roger Hig gins; quarterback Lloyd Gen- erette; halfbacks RichardScott and Gregory Robinson; and line backer Curtis Jennings. 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They’re primarily a running team and they throw when they have to. They have good size but they aren’t big up and down the line like Palmetto. Their tackles weigh 263 pounds and 215 pounds but other than those two they drop down to about average size. “They have a couple of good backs. Their tailback is small but quick. The fullback weighs about 175 or 180 pounds.” Richardson said, "As far as I know now, we’re in go«xl phy sical condition for the game. This is the fifth week in a row that we haven’t lost anyone to injuries. I think that’s been the big difference in our showing in the last few weeks, being able to keep people together for a while.” The Red Devils lost 18-8 last Friday in the Homecoming game against Western Conference po wer Palmetto. Richardson said, “I think we played a pretty good football game. Of course, we don’t like to get beat but we hung in there with them pretty good. They just physically outmuscled us at some stages. We lost two fumbles and were victims of three pass in terceptions but we still kept it close most of the way." The CHS coach said that a key play came toward the end of the first half when Clinton missed a first down by an inch at the Palmetto eight. With fourth down and 17 to go, quarterback, Buzzy Tedards tag ged end Matthew King with a pass and the big end bulled to Pal metto’s eight before he was stop ped. The measurement showed Clinton fell an inch shy of a first down and Palmetto took over. l 7,^ PIAZA FURNITURE MART aacrr^ OF IOANNA, S. C. ■lanmKNKfflB ^ ' Hi I ' * “That was a bigplay,’Richard son said, “if we had gotten the first down, I think we could have scored and that would have given us at least a tie at halftime. As it was, we went into the half trailing 6-0.” ^ “They didn’t dominate us. We made two mistakes in pass de-i fense and gave them two scores. However, I wasn't too disappoin ted. Our boys kept their heads, up.” Palmetto scored in the second quarter on a 22-yard pass play from quarterback Keith CampbeU'* to end Ralph Lewis. Linebacker* Mike Crawford battled down the- attempted pass for the conver sion. In the first quarter, Charles'’- Crawford passed to Ralph Lewis' on a 43-yard play for another’ Palmetto score. The Mustangs’ put the game out of reach when' halfback Lee West scored from’ the six after a Palmetto pass- interception. ^ Late in the game, Clinton went 70 yards, primarily on the run ning and passing of quarterback; Donnie White and scored on a. quarterback sneak by White.. White passed to King for the two^; point conversion for the flnaL 18-8 score. The Yardstick Clinton Palmetto First Downs 8 7 Yards Rushing 85 129 Yards Passing 54 74 Total Yardage 139 208 Passes 7-21 3-8 Passes Intcp. By 1 3 Punts 5 5 Punt Avg. 29 29 Punt Return Ydg. 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